Having such good memories means they remember their suffering.
For instance, these cows are happy for returning to the pasture after a long winter.

Emotionally mammals are very developed, like us.
They share with us many of our feelings, such as fear and love.

Their emotions can be every bit as troubling as ours.
They can be depressed so much they won't even eat!

Even our distant relatives, the cetaceans are very aware and very playful fellows.
This Humpback Whale, for instance, realizes she's been saved from a fishing net and lets her rescuers know she is thankful.

Non-mammal animals on the other hand appear to be quite different from us, but birds always find ways to puzzle us.
Apparently they like to have fun!
The crow is probably the smartest bird there is!

Yeah this is a mock charge, the ears are out and the Ellie probably trumpeted as well to warn them to back off. A real charge is usually a last resort and is silent with ears pinned back and head and trunk lowered... Usually... they are very intelligent animals so establishing “typical” behaviour is kinda vague 😂

It is kind of typical for most animals to threaten before actually trying to do damage to others. This is to conserve energy and to protect oneself from any damages it may receive from fighting. Elephants can crush just about any animal but they don't want to harm unless fully provoked or if they go full PTSD.

No, that's not the spirit of the sub. We're trying to find instances of animals actually behaving in a similar manner to a human, not instances where you can falsely attribute a behaviour as human because it looks similar.

Gorillas do something similar! The silverback will go through a few attempts to get the enemy to back the fuck off, and this is usually the last step before he goes full psycho and rips their face off (or dies trying). Teeth, pok-pok (the chest beating - so-called because of the sound it makes [try it yourself - cup your hand like you're trying to hold water and pat your chest - ladies do it on the top of your boobs where they slope up into your neck/shoulders - and it makes a pok! pok! pok! sound]), standing up straight, snarling, swiping, hooting, and finally, the false charge.

They do a false charge for two reasons. One, to display their power, give you a taste of how fast they can run, show you how scary they can be, let you know how serious they are, and give you one last chance to run away. Two, they know that engaging in battle with an enemy could obviously result in their death. They also know that they are their family group's sole protector. Therefore, they try not to engage directly right away to give their family a chance to leave and, more importantly, to not abandon their family group with a deadly predator (even another silverback, who will kill all the young of the pack if he wins). There might be an adolescent male or two that could fight back against the predator and protect the females and young, but generally the only one capable of taking on an enemy is Big Papa himself, as all the adolescent males are still too young to be silverbacks themselves and still need caring for. Once they're big enough they might challenge him and, if he's old enough and they're strong enough, they'll succeed. Otherwise they just wander off and find a new family to hang out with.

I love the comments going, "Oh that idiot relying on his human nature and instincts. I would have vaulted over the elephant because I am so very sure I would have had a surge of noradrenaline that would have enabled my fast and slow twitch muscles to actually do the right thing, this guy just did a Prometheus. How silly."

Just to be clear, that elephant is NOT playing around. They're some of the world's deadliest animals and this isn't "haha you thought I was gonna kill you", it's more like the elephant equivalent of firing a gun into the dirt right at their feet. It's "I could kill you right now, and I will if you don't fuck off asap"